Halifax, Nova Scotia was first settled by Acadians and Mi'kmaq people. The British settled peninsula Halifax (1749), which sparked
Father Le Loutre's War. To guard against Mi'kmaq, Acadian, and French attacks on the new Protestant settlements, British fortifications were erected in Halifax
(Citadel Hill) (1749), Bedford (
Fort Sackville) (1749), Dartmouth (1750), and
Lawrencetown (1754).
St. Margaret's Bay first got settled by French-speaking
Foreign Protestants at
French Village, Nova Scotia who migrated from
Lunenburg, Nova Scotia during the American Revolution. All of these regions were amalgamated into the Halifax Regional Municipality (HRM) in 1996. While all of the regions of HRM developed separately over the last 250 years, their histories have also been intertwined.